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jon@lemdro.idto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most "oof" or wtf fact you know about an everyday object?English2·9 months agoIf the donkey’s flying a plane does that increase the chances of you dying?
That second sentence could do with a disambiguating comma…
jon@lemdro.idto Technology@lemmy.world•The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally RevealedEnglish4·1 year ago“Nice show Ms Swift, there’s a tenner for you, maybe buy something nice with it”
jon@lemdro.idto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"English472·2 years agoGood luck debugging AI-generated code…
jon@lemdro.idto Technology@lemmy.ml•Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these appsEnglish6·2 years agoWhat, the generic Windows driver wasn’t good enough…?
Wasn’t that obscure, the song had heavy rotation on MTV back in the day.
Try again, you still don’t understand the concept.
In mathematical terms it’s perfectly acceptable to talk about the limit of an expression as some value tends towards infinity. E.g.:
limit (1/x) = 0 x→∞https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_(mathematics)#Infinity_as_a_limit
jon@lemdro.idto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the closest you have ever been to actually dying?English3·3 years agoNP. Yes ABS is designed to avoid exactly that issue, essentially by implementing in a mechanical way what drivers used to do manually - pumping the brakes etc.
jon@lemdro.idto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the closest you have ever been to actually dying?English2·3 years agoThey’re “brakes” and it’s “braking”. Yes, I know the previous commenter got it wrong as well.
The usual problem with slamming on the brakes is that it causes the wheels to lock up and slide instead of slowing the vehicle down.
jon@lemdro.idto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Europeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?English692·3 years agoThe way politicians and the political system nakedly serves the needs and interests of corporations and the wealthy, and not the average individual.
The way that the price you’re quoted invariably gets bumped up by various taxes.
The insane system that is tipping, including the fact that a lot of workers are so underpaid that they rely on tips to get by.
The incessant adverts on TV for medical products, particularly prescription drugs.
Yep, exactly. We already have exceptions for these dogs now in many cases.
“Let all brave Prussians follow me!”— Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (6 May 1757), at the Battle of Prague, immediately before being struck by a cannonball.
jon@lemdro.idto PC Master Race@lemmy.world•Bethesda claims that the Intel ARC GPUs do not meet Starfield's PC minimum requirementsEnglish2·3 years agoThey already told us that their optimisations consist of them telling us to buy better hardware.
jon@lemdro.idto UK Politics@feddit.uk•Lord Sugar tried to avoid £186m tax payment as a non-UK residentEnglish12·3 years agoBased on how he’s been acting since he became a lord, i would guess that his donations to Labour were simply to secure him the life peerage that Labour duly gave him in 2009, and since then we’re seeing his true colours, including reposting a photoshopped photo of Corbyn with Hitler, and mocking the Senegal football team, saying they looked like street-side hawkers. Í think he occasionally bleats some sexist crap on xwitter as well.
jon@lemdro.idto UK Politics@feddit.uk•Lord Sugar tried to avoid £186m tax payment as a non-UK residentEnglish14·3 years agoHe was one of the largest donors to the Labour Party, who made him a Lord. A few years later he switched sides to the Conservatives, and had been acting like the archetypal Tory gobshite ever since.
jon@lemdro.idto Don’t You Know Who I Am?@lemmy.world•Emmy award winner talking about Oppenheimer.English1·3 years agodeleted by creator
jon@lemdro.idto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?English4·3 years agoRelativity only applies to local reference frames and not to the recession rates of cosmologically distant objects.
No-one expects Jedward.